To what extent the Armenian Genocide has “benefited” Zionism is a question often asked in these days. But “contributions” such as the claim that Jews have carried out the Armenian Genocide are clrearly anti-Semitic.

And what troubles me is when a respected website such as www.GenocideEvents.com is sending me an e-mail announcing that “HISTORIAN CHRISTOPHER JON BJERKNESS [WILL] SPEAK IN AN UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC LECTURE, ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2007, ON THE TOPIC OF ‘WHO WERE THE YOUNG TURKS, THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR ETHNIC ORIGINS.'”

Christopher Jon Bjerkness is the self-proclaimed historian from http://jewishracism.com/ whose latest book’s title speaks for itself, “The Jewish Genocide of Christian Armenians.” So of course the idiot was going to speak in front of a small nationalist Armenian crowd in California that the Armenian Genocide was done by the Jews (what gives hope is the fact that this small crowd could not get the event happen at an Armenian venue and, instead, at the United Community Church in Glendale, California). And quite ironically, this anti-Semite’s book reminds me of a similar title by an anti-Armenianist, “THE NAZI-ARMENIAN GENOCIDE OF JEWS 1935–1945.”

And please. Don’t tell me I need to waste my time reading a 500-page book that tells me my people were cleansed out of their ancestral homeland by the Jews. The fact that some masterminds of the Armenian Genocide had Jewish heritage doesn’t prove much – there were masterminds who also had Assyrian and even Armenian blood. And, perhaps, some individual Jews have benefited from the Armenian Genocide by having some business competition eliminated, etc. But what does this have to do with the Armenian-Turkish conflict?

I assume most Armenians are, justly, outraged with many Turkish-Jews’ support of the Armenian Genocide denial. There is one like that at the Metro State College of Denver in Colorado, Robert Hasan. The guy is a Turkish Jew now teaching history at this college and an adamant denier of the Armenian Genocide.

Actualy I heard of Hasan from a senior Jewish friend of mine – he was reading literature on genocide at Barnes & Nobles when Hasan interrupted him, introduced himself and urged my friend to make sure to learn about the Genocide that ARMENIANS COMMITTED against the Turks!
Of course my friend was outraged and he is actually now doing as much awareness work for the Armenian Genocide as for the Jewish Holocaust.

Now take this case and make your judgement. Is Hasan a Zionist or a nationalist Turk with a permanent brain damage? I don’t care which one he is, but idiots like him don’t ignite anti-Semitism in me to declare that the Armenian Genocide was committed by the Jews that’s why Turkish Jews deny it! And yes, it is anti-Semitism to blame Jews for the Armenian Genocide. And not because Jews, as every other people, are not capable of a genocide (and in fact, according to the Old Tastement, they may have as well committed one long time ago) but ignoring the Pan-Turkist ideology that carried out the Armenian Genocide and blaming Zionism instead is very unintelligent.

Paradoxically, a select debils are taking advantage of Christopher Jon Bjerkness’ limited “acceptance” among some Armenian circles to misinterpret the Zionist charge in the Armenian Genocide to deny the Armenian Genocide in quite stupid ways. Barbara Lerner, for example, has contributed to National Review Online (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDI2ZmMwMjJhNjMxZGNmZGVjOTc5MmQwMDY5OWY0ZmY=) with her “judgment time” by trying to defend professional deniers of the Armenian Genocide as victims of anti-Semitism:

“…[M]en like Guenter Lewy, Edward J. Erickson, Andrew Mango, Justin McCarthy, Stanford Shaw, Norman Stone, and Michael Gunter — are regularly compared to Holocaust deniers like David Irving and Ernst Zundel, and dismissed as ‘genocide deniers.’ On many blogs and websites, Armenians often accuse these scholars of being part of a Jewish and/or Zionist conspiracy, because Israel has always steadfastly rejected the genocide charge, as Turkey’s own Jewish citizens do.”

While otherwise consistent in providing links to references, Lerner, for some reason, fails to provide any links to any of the “many blogs and websites, [where] Armenians often accuse these scholars of being part of a Jewish and/or Zionist conspiracy.”

I have my own conspiracy theory about Ms. Lerner; she needs to get laid.

5 Responses to “Anti-Semitism, Zionism and the Armenian Genocide”

Thanks Blogian. I agree with your excellent summary 100%. Taking men like Bjerkness seriously is not only foolish, but will reap further dividends for Armenian Genocide deniers. Although still annoying, people with views such as Hasan and Lerner are gradually being silenced by their own ignorance. We must remember that day by day they become irrelevant and the Armenians Genocide becomes more widely accepted.

I was at that Bjerkness ‘lecture’ (very poorly executed just as a presentation, too, btw), and it was pretty disturbing to see the entire place filled with Armenians ready to swallow anything negative about the already preconceived image of the “bad Jew.”
It was all a badly choreographed show… I was not sure weather to laugh or be upset.
A couple of somber Armenian guys in black approached my friend and I twice, FORBIDDING us to take pictures or record video. We weren’t in a mood to argue and become the target of what looked like a potential angry mob.

Dear Mr. Blogian (Magakhian?),
In your post Anti-Semitism, Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (for unknown reasons posted under the headline Denial and Armenian Genocide) you baselessly accused Christopher J. Bjerkness in anti-Semitism. Moreover you accused majority of Glendale Armenian community in “idiotism”. Are you sure that Rev. Bedros Hajian is anti-Semite? And great John Kirakosian ?
I would like to inform you that Christopher J. Bjerknes is from famous family of European scientists-aristocrats (see Wikipedia) and to talk with him in a language you choose is inadmissible. We, Armenians, must be grateful to Christopher for his titanic efforts to help Armenian cause, establish new facts and vision, and at least do not hinder his work by light-minded remarks and insults.
Christopher J. Bjerknes’s thorough investigation Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians deserves intent attention of Armenian people, and decent Turks and Jews.
Sincerely,
Rudolf Muradian

Come on, “Blogian”, give us your name and try to defend the outrageous things you have said. Let’s have a little debate in an open forum which you cannot censor. Explain to us why you are defending the Jewish mass murderers of the Armenian People, and prove to us that the Armenians and Assyrians committed the same crimes as I have proven that the Jewish mass murderers Talaat Pasha, Djavid Bey, Emmanuel Carasso, and Dr. Nazim, to name but a few, have committed, those Jews who slaughtered helpless Armenian men, women and children, whose ethnic origins you claim it is “anti-Semitic” to identify. Prove to us that the Armenians and Assyrians had the same racist religious hatred of the Armenians, which I have proven the Jews had. Prove to us how they took over the Ottoman Empire as I have proven the Jews took over the Ottoman Empire. Why is it that you do not want these facts, which identify the Jewish origins of the Armenian genocide, exposed? Why are you spreading libelous lies, instead of attempting to argue the issue?

Why don’t you try to prove what British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Gerard Lowther, wrote to the British Foreign Office wrong, when he said, among other things,

“[T]his new Freemasonry in Turkey, unlike that of England and America, is in great part secret and political, and information on the subject is only obtainable in strict confidence, while those who betray its political secrets seem to stand in fear of the hand of the Mafia. Some days ago a local Mason who divulged the signs of the craft was actually threatened with being sent before the court-martial, sitting in virtue of our state of siege. [***] [T]he Young Turkey movement in Paris was quite separate from and in great part in ignorance of the inner workings of that in Salonica. The latter town has a population of about 140,000, of whom 80,000 are Spanish Jews, and 20,000 of the sect of Sabetai [Z]evi or Crypto-Jews, who externally profess Islamism. Many of the former have in the past acquired Italian nationality and are Freemasons affiliated to Italian lodges. Nathan, the Jewish Lord Mayor of Rome, is high up in Masonry, and the Jewish Premiers Luzzati and Sonnino, and other Jewish senators and deputies, are also, it appears, Masons. [***] Emannuele Carasso, a Jewish Mason of Salonica, and now deputy for that town in the Ottoman Chamber, founded there a lodge called ‘Macedonia Risorta’ in connection with Italian Freemasonry. He appears to have induced the Young Turks, officers and civilians, to adopt Freemasonry with a view to exerting an impalpable Jewish influence over the new dispensation in Turkey[.] [***] The inspiration of the movement in Salonica would seem to have been mainly Jewish[.] [***] Carasso began to play a big rôle, including his successful capture of the Balkan Committee, and it was noticed that Jews of all colours, native and foreign, were enthusiastic supporters of the new dispensation, till, as a Turk expressed it, every Hebrew seemed to become a potential spy of the occult Committee, and people began to remark that the movement was rather a Jewish than a Turkish revolution. The Italian Government appointed a Jew and Mason called Primo Levi, who was not in the consular career, as consul-general at Salonica, and Oscar Strauss, who, together with Jacob Schiff, had influenced the American Jews in favour of Jewish immigration into Mesopotamia as opposed to other Territorialist plans and as an extended form of Sionism, was appointed American Ambassador here. [***] Carasso was one of the bearers of the message of deposition to Abdul Hamid, who was conveyed to Salonica and confined in the house of the Italian Jewish bankers of the Committee, while a brother of Remzi Bey was set over him as keeper. After the deposition the Jewish papers of Salonica sent up a loud cry of deliverance from ‘the oppressor of Israel’ who had twice turned a deaf ear to the appeals of Herzl, the Sionist leader, and who, by the imposition of the red passport, like our own Aliens Act, against Polish Jewish immigrants, and otherwise, had thwarted the realisation of the ideals of Sionism in Palestine. The ninth Sionist Congress in December 1909 at Hamburg announced that the divisions in the Jewish world between Territorialists and Sionists, ‘as a miracle of the Turkish revolution’, had been healed. At the same time Javid Bey, Deputy for Salonica, an exceedingly clever and gifted Crypto-Jew and Freemason, was made Minister of Finance, while Talaat Bey, also a Freemason, became Minister of the Interior. [***] Parliament was ‘ordered’ to pass a very stringent Press Law, and a Salonica Crypto-Jew and Freemason was made ‘Directeur du Bureau de la Presse’, a post of enormous power, as its holder can suppress a paper for severe ‘criticism of the new régime’ (dubbed ‘reaction’), or have the proprietor or editor court-martialled. A semi-inspired Ottoman telegraph agency [***] was started under the direction of a Baghdad Jew, and an all but successful attempt was made to appoint a Salonica Jewish lawyer and Mason as adviser to the Ministry of Justice. The Constantinople head branch of the Committee of Union and Progress is also run by a Salonica Crypto-Jew and Mason. Another Salonica Crypto-Jew and Freemason made determined attempts to be appointed ‘Préfet’, i.e. Lord Mayor, of the capital, but has not yet succeeded in his aim, though Prince Said Ha[lim] an Egyptian Freemason, has become Deputy Mayor. [***] [T]he old Ministry of Police was replaced by the ‘Sûreté Publique’ controlling the police and gendarmerie, and put in charge of a Salonica Freemason. [***] Talaat Bey, the Minister of the Interior, who is of Gipsy descent, and comes from Kirjali, in the Adrianople district, and Javid Bey, the Minister of Finance, who is a Crypto-Jew, are the official manifestations of the occult power of the Committee. They are the only members of the Cabinet who really count, and are also the apex of Freemasonry in Turkey. [***] A Turk described it as a process of ‘drugging the latter with Jewish hashish’. From the foregoing or any close inspection of the Young Turkey movement in its present stage, it will appear to be principally Jewish and ‘Turkish’ as opposed to other Ottoman elements, e.g. Arabs, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, etc. [***] It was hoped in the beginning that the Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and the Ottoman Jew would serve as economic props, but the Young Turk seems to have allied himself solely with the Jew, Ottoman and foreign, and to have estranged the other races. The same result has been witnessed in Hungary, where the Hungarian, who is of Turkish stock and is similarly devoid of real business instincts, has come under the almost exclusive economic and financial domination of the Jew. [***] [A]s Turkey happens to contain the places sacred to Israel, it is but natural that the Jew should strive to maintain a position of exclusive influence and utilize it for the furtherance of his ideals, viz, the ultimate creation of an autonomous Jewish state in Palestine or Babylonia, as explained by Israel Zangwill in his article in the ‘Fortnightly Review’ of April. He would kill two birds with one stone if he could obtain from the Turk unrestricted immigration of Jews into Turkey, an aim that he has been pursuing for years back, and transfer to Mesopotamia some millions of his co-religionists in bondage in Russia and Roumania. In return for ‘unrestricted immigration’ of foreign Jews, he has offered the Young Turk to sacrifice his mother-tongue and replace it by Turkish, and even to take over the whole of the Turkish National Debt. Dr. Nazim, one of the most influential members of the Salonica Committee and said to be of Jewish extraction, has, in company, with his fidus Achates, a certain Faik Bey Toledo, a Crypto-Jew of Salonica, visited the Paris branch of the I.C.A. (Judaeo-Colonisation Association) and has since openly advocated importing 200,000 Roumanian Jews into Macedonia and some millions of Russian Jews into Mesopotamia. [***] Doubtless, when Young Turkey with its heavy military expenditure is in need of borrowing, further pressure will be applied by the Jewish lenders. [***] For the ‘Aurore’ (‘Shefak’), a Sionist organ started a year ago in Constantinople, is never tired of reminding its readers that the domination of Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, who forced the Jews to build the Pyramids, is part of the future heritage of Israel. [***] Mesopotamia and Palestine are, however, only the ultimate goal of the Jews. The immediate end for which they are working is the practically exclusive economic capture of Turkey and new enterprises in that country. [***] [T]hey hold or control all the pivotal points in the machinery of the Young Turkey Government, though the Ministry of Public Works [***] is still held by an Armenian, Halajian Effendi. When his predecessor, another Armenian, was got rid of, a determined attempt was made to appoint a Jew or a Jewish nominee. [***] His position is now still shaky, and the most bitter and constant attacks on him come from a Jewish-financed paper, ‘Le Jeune Turc’, while there are rumours that his successor will be a Jew, or a Turk with a Jew at his elbow. It is obvious that the Jew, who is so vitally interested in maintaining his sole predominance in the councils of the Young Turkey, is equally interested in keeping alive the flames of discord between the Turk and his (the Jew’s) possible rivals, i.e. the Armenians, Greeks, etc., while it is to be inferred that he would not be averse to the new regime increasing the national indebtedness to the Hebrew financiers. [***] The Jew hates Russia and its Government[.] [***] The Jew can help the Young Turk with brains, business enterprise, his enormous influence in the press of Europe, and money in return for economic advantages and the eventual realisation of the ideals of Israel[.] [***] The Jew has supplied funds to the Young Turks and has thus acquired a hold on them; but in order to retain this hold he has to appear at least to approve and aid the Young Turk towards the accomplishment of ‘national’ dreams. Secrecy and elusive methods are essential to both. The Oriental Jew is an adept at manipulating occult forces, and political Freemasonry of the continental type has been chosen as the most effective bond and cloak to conceal the inner workings of the movement. [***] The ‘Jeune Turc’, which, like some other organs in the Ottoman capital, is subventioned by the Jews[.] [***] But all this is dependent on European, i.e. mainly Jewish, financiers supplying it with the sums required to keep up an army which is disproportionate to its actual state of economic development.”—Letter from G. Lowther to C. Hardinge 29 May 1910, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, Lowther Papers, Foreign Office 800/193A; and see: 800/193B. The complete letter is published in: E. Kedourie, “Young Turks, Freemasons and Jews”, Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, (January, 1971), pp. 89-104; reprinted: E. Kedourie, Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies, Chapter 16, Frank Cass, London, (1974), pp. 243-263. For additional correspondence to and from Lowther, see also: British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914, 11 Volumes in 13, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, London, (1927); and the Hardinge Papers and the Grey Papers.

I don’t mean to bother you with the facts while you are busy with your babyish smear campaign, but if you ever summon the courage to respond and give us your name, tell us why you take exception with the statements of the Vienna Correspondent of the Times of London, who wrote,

“It is a well-known fact that the Salonika Committee was formed under Masonic auspices with the help of the Jews and Donmehs, or crypto-Jews of Turkey, whose headquarters are at Salonika, and whose organization took, even under Abdul Hamid, a Masonic form. Jews like Emmanuel Carasso, Salem, Sassun, Fardji, Meslah, and Donmehs or crypto-Jews, like Djavid Bey and the Baldji family, took an influential part both in the organization of the Committee and in the deliberations of its central body at Salonika. These facts, which are known to every Government in Europe, are also known throughout Turkey and the Balkans, where an increasing tendency is noticeable to saddle the Jews and Donmehs with responsibility for the sanguinary blunders which the Committee has made.”—Vienna Correspondent for The London Times, “Jews and the Situation in Albania”, The London Times, (11 July 1911), p. 5.”

Be a man little “Blogian” and give us your full name and attempt to defend the falsehoods you have stated.

By the way, do you often make such offensive remarks as you those you directed at Barbara Lerner?